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Optimal Asymmetric Binary Quantization for Estimation Under Symmetrically Distributed Noise

Information Theory 2013-10-28 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Estimation of a location parameter based on noisy and binary quantized measurements is considered in this letter. We study the behavior of the Cramer-Rao bound as a function of the quantizer threshold for different symmetric unimodal noise distributions. We show that, in some cases, the intuitive choice of threshold position given by the symmetry of the problem, placing the threshold on the true parameter value, can lead to locally worst estimation performance.

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@article{arxiv.1310.6938,
  title  = {Optimal Asymmetric Binary Quantization for Estimation Under Symmetrically Distributed Noise},
  author = {Rodrigo Cabral Farias and Eric Moisan and Jean-Marc Brossier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6938},
  year   = {2013}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures

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